Heaven Splitter · Nate

245 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 5:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
245
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 5 more places -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
HEAVEN SPLITTER · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 7, 26, 58, 92, 113 and 20 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

245 bars across 19 sections: 180 keep time, 26 are fills, 10 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-91.

PART D
PART I
PART D
CHORUS
PART Y
PART AH
PART AL
16 groovesMDYAHAL+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heaven Splitter?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Heaven Splitter hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

245 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 31 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Heaven Splitter?

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 7, 26, 58, 92, 113 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 245 BARS ANALYSED
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